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Shinique Smith: Grace Stands Beside

This new sculpture is motivated by the monuments that Shinique Smith practiced drawing as ayoung artist growing up in Baltimore City. Its title is an evolution of one of the inscriptions onthe base of the former Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument erected by the Daughtersof the Confederacy in 1903, which reads Glory stands beside our grief. The monument wasremoved in 2017 following public recognition of how this work and others exalted histories ofslavery and racism. In relation to her layered feelings and memories of the bronze sculpture,Smith was compelled to create her own deity-like form as a monument to Grace, which theartist defines as: a complex state of being that black people and others who have enduredtragic prejudice have embodied to survive and to rise beyond. The sculpture will becomprised of vintage fabrics and quilts, as well as garments from the artists family, friends,and extended connections who reside in Baltimore.

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